in which abdominal section has been successfully performed for
advanced ectopic gestation with living children.

Long Retention of Extrauterine Pregnancy.--The time of the retention of
an extrauterine gestation is sometimes remarkable, and it is no
uncommon occurrence for several pregnancies to successfully ensue
during such retention. The Ephemerides contains examples of
extrauterine pregnancy remaining in the abdomen forty-six years;
Hannaeus mentioned an instance remaining ten years, the mother being
pregnant in the meantime; Primperosius speaks of a similar instance; de
Blegny, one of twenty-five years in the abdomen; Birch, a case of
eighteen years in the abdomen, the woman bearing in the meantime;
Bayle, one of twenty-six years, and the Ephemerides, another. In a
woman of forty-six, the labor pains intervened without expulsion of the
fetus. Impregnation ensued twice afterward, each followed by the birth
of a living child. The woman lived to be ninety-four, and was persuaded
that the fetus was still in the abdomen, and directed a postmortem
examination to be made after her decease, which was done, and a large
cyst containing an ossified fetus was discovered in the left side of
the cavity. In 1716 a woman of Joigny when thirty years old, having
been married four years, became pregnant, and three months later felt
movements and found milk in her breasts. At the ninth month she had
labor-pains, but the fetus failed to present; the pains ceased, but
recurred in a month, still with a negative result. She fell into a most
sickly condition and remained so for eighteen months, when the pains
returned again, but soon ceased. Menstruation ceased and the milk in
her breasts remained for thirty years. She died at sixty-one of
peripneumonia, and on postmortem examination a tumor was found
occupying part of the hypogastric and umbilical regions. It weighed
eight pounds and consisted of a male fetus of full term with six teeth;
it had no odor and its sac contained no liquid. The bones seemed
better developed than ordinarily; the skin was thick, callous, and
yellowish The chorion, amnion, and placenta were ossified and the cord
dried up. Walther mentions the case of an infant which remained almost
petrified in the belly of its mother for twenty-three years. No trace
of the placenta, cord, or enveloping membrane could be found.

Cordier publishes a paper on ectopic gestation, with particular
reference to tubal pregnancy, and ment